S110E2: Basically If It's True It's False And If It's False It's True - Trevor Gear On Some Contradictions

About this episode

Trevor Gear discusses various paradoxes and their implications on truth and free will.

This is the Season 109 of The Alien Spaceship with dRem TGI (Emmy Hikins) and Trevor Gear on Deepstuff TV and Deepstuff Radio of Deepstuff records. All Episodes conducted by Legendary Singer-Songwriter and Musician Trevor Gear and TV and Radio presenter Emmy Hikins (dRem TGI) and also a Singer-Songwriter and a music producer of Deepstuff records LTD. Joined by System Analyst Jerome John This is a Comedy Talkshow and a Podcast In this season: Paradoxes and Free Will Paradoxes Discussion Trevor introduced the liar's paradox: "Everything I say is a lie" 32. He explained that if this statement is true, it contradicts itself (because the statement itself would be a lie). If false, it also contradicts the statement 3334. The paradox demonstrates statements that are simultaneously true if false, and false if true 34. Trevor then presented the crocodile paradox: A crocodile grabs a boy and tells the mother it will return the child if she correctly predicts whether the crocodile will keep or return him 34. When the mother says "You'll keep the boy," the crocodile faces an impossible dilemma—if he keeps the boy, the mother was right so he should return him; if he returns the boy, the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Trevor Gear, Emmy Hikins

Guest: Jerome John

Topics covered

• paradoxes
• free will
• liar's paradox
• crocodile paradox
• truth

Keywords

• paradox
• liar's paradox
• crocodile paradox
• truth
• free will

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deepstuff TV, Deepstuff Radio, Deepstuff records, Deepstuff records LTD

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